The International Legal Status of North American Indians After 500 Years of Colonization

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serv Wiemers
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
American Indians ◽  
North American ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
The North ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
North American Indian ◽  
The Right

Next year, the ‘discovery’ of America by Columbus, 500 years ago, will be commemorated. The discovery of America started a time of colonization for the original inhabitants, the Indians. Since the 1970s an Indian movement has emerged in North America demanding the Indians' ‘rightful place among the family of nations’. This article contains a survey of the current international legal position of Indians in North America. Wiemers holds that international legal principles, developed in the decolonization context, are applicable to the North American Indian population. The right of a people to selfdetermination is the most discussed one.

scholarly journals Franz Boas’ Postulate of the Warfare Origin of Secret Societies and Myths about the “Culture Heroˮ and the “Tricksterˮ in North America

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-48
Author(s):  
Dragana Jeremić Molnar ◽  
Aleksandar Molnar
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
American Indians ◽  
North American ◽  
Secret Society ◽  
Secret Societies ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
The North

In this paper, the authors argue that Franz Boas had a coherent theory of the secret society, which he did not systematically develop anywhere, but which can be reconstructed from several of his works. The authors are not dealing with the whole theory, but only with the postulate of the warfare origin of secret societies (which later became the foundation of the Männerbund theory). Namely, Boas believed that the secret societies of the North American Indians were originally warlike, but that by the beginning of the 20th century they either retained only the functions of initiation and education, or were transformed into therapeutic and dance societies. Although he claimed that the mythology of the Indians did not provide additional insights into the origins of secret societies, his dealings with the myth of the “culture heroˮ and the “tricksterˮ proved the contrary. The authors try to go a step further and find new contributions for the study of the origins of secret societies in North America in the myth of Wolf as the brother (father) of the “culture hero.ˮ

scholarly journals Diphtheria infection in North West Canada, 1969, 1970 and 1971

1972 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 503-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. Jellard
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
American Indians ◽  
North American ◽  
White People ◽  
North West ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
The North ◽  
Caucasian Origin ◽  
Health Significance ◽  
North American Indian

SUMMARYIn three years,Corynebacterium diphtheriaewas isolated from 1238 people, consisting of 820 North American Indians or Metis, 318 people of Caucasian origin, 97 Eskimos and 3 Asiatic Indians. Diphtheria infection of the throat, nose, ears and skin was common in the North American Indian and Metis people, but rarely caused severe symptoms. The infection occurred less often in white people but was more serious; of 27 cases of toxic respiratory diphtheria, 25 were white people. The public health significance of the endemic infection of the North American Indian and Metis people is discussed.

Ginseng: Its History, Dispersion, and Folk Tradition

1975 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 223-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
American Indians ◽  
North American ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Chinese Market ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
White American ◽  
Historical Comparison ◽  
The North ◽  
North American Indian ◽  
Folk Tradition

This article presents a historical comparison of the traditions surrounding and uses of ginseng in Asia and in North America, with a focus on the triangle formed by the Chinese, the North American Indians, and the white American residients. The medicinal and folkloric applications of ginseng by the Chinese were remarkably similar to those independently developed by various North American Indian tribes. White Americans, however, largely disregarded the herbal root medicinal qualities in favor of the lucrative economic gains available from the export of ginseng to supply the Chinese market. Information was gathered primarily from Western sources and whenever possible was either drawn from or corroborated by original eighteenth and nineteenth century publications.

scholarly journals Origin of the New England Company, London, With an Account of its Labours on Behalf of the North-American Indians.

1885 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-301
Author(s):  
Wm. Marshall Venning
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
North American ◽  
Indian Language ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
The North ◽  
The Arts ◽  
John Eliot

John Eliot, long known as ‘the apostle of the North-American Red Men,’ and other Englishmen early in the seventeenth century, laboured to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the heathen natives of New England in their own Indian language, and in doing so, found it necessary to carry on civilisation with religion, and to instruct them in some of the arts of life. Their writings, and more particularly some of the tracts known as the ‘Eliot Tracts,’ aroused so much interest in London that the needs of the Indians of New England were brought before Parliament, and on July 27, 1649, an Act or Ordinance was passed with this title :—‘A Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England.’

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